Daniel Morris

Daniel Morris ( born January 4, 1812 in Fayette, New York, † April 22, 1889 in Penn Yan, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Morris was born about five and a half months before the outbreak of the British - American War in Seneca County. He attended public schools and the Canandaigua Academy in Ontario County. Then he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1845 he began to practice in Penn Yan in Yates County. Between 1847 and 1850 he was district attorney in Yates County. He sat in 1859 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1862 for the 38th Congress, he was in the 25th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Theodore Medad Pomeroy on March 4, 1863. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up a re-election bid in 1866, then retired after the March 3, 1867 out of the Congress. After his conference time he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 22, 1889 in Penn Yan and was then buried in the Lakeview Cemetery.